#219: Kenny Beats

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome arguably the producer of the year Kenny Beats to the Upper West Side! Kenny talks growing up in Connecticut always the tallest kid in his class, taking breakdancing classes, noodling on the guitar, the moment his mind awakened to music production, and the days he'd spend in a beat-making program recreating Timbaland beats he'd heard in the Jay-Z documentary Fade to Black. Kenny talks about his high school internship at RCA, his off-the-books internship for Jonny Shipes, going off to Berklee College of Music, getting ahead of his peers, becoming a staple of the hip-hop scene in Boston, trading his own supply of weed for the opportunity to hang with Ab-Soul, how that friendship got his first beats placed with ScHoolboy Q and Smoke DZA. We discuss transitioning into the EDM scene, touring the world as the DJ LOUDPVCK, putting on elaborately produced shows, how his beats weren't a huge departure from his hip-hop catalog, how ultimately his heart wasn't in the EDM world and the dark results it had on him physically, mentally and emotionally. Kenny talks giving up the DJ life, his reset, being down to his last $1k, locking himself in his room and composing records he truly cared about, and how he reintroduced himself into hip-hop through his work with HoodRich Pablo Juan, Key!, Rico Nasty, Lil Wop and more. All that, plus how he separates himself from other producers, why he prefers being in studio with an artist, how he stepped up his vocal production, what working on full projects with Vince Staples and 03 Greedo mean to him, his special collaborative album with ALLBLACK, how he knew his beats were winning, and so much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? I am hanging in there, got a pretty
0:04.3	bad cold, but otherwise I'm doing all right. All right. Well, you want to know what? If people are looking for one of those classic, a waste of time with it's the real intros, the kind that are like 10 minutes long with some funny anecdotes from our week that really go into who we are as people and as comedians as working podcasters.
0:22.4	You can listen to any of our other 217 or that really go into who we are as people and as comedians, as as working podcasters.
0:22.4	You can listen to any of our other 217 or 18 episodes right on SoundCloud or Spotify or iTunes.
0:29.5	Just go and listen to one of those blasted in your whip, windows down.
0:33.1	People love to hear that shit as they're riding by.
0:35.9	But today on the podcast we have. Kenny Beetz,
0:39.1	Kenny Beetz, who is one surprisingly taller than you might expect him to be. He's six foot seven.
0:45.0	You know what? That's why people tune in to this podcast to hear how tall someone is. Yes, very visual.
0:49.5	Well, I mean, Cardo got wings, 411. He is a 4 foot 11 man. Please add him and let him know that he is 4 foot
0:57.1	11. Here's why I like this story, Jeff. Kenny Beetz is somebody who came out of Connecticut, which
1:01.5	you know, with all due respect to everyone in Connecticut, does not have a super, super hip-hop
1:08.2	sound. What? And he made it out, and when he was just on the cusp of doing really well,
1:15.9	he did party for schoolboy Q. He was in with the whole TDE. He was doing all right with the
1:21.3	Johnny Shipes connection and everything over there. He decided to switch it up and dive fully into the EDM lane and where he could have made
1:30.3	millions upon millions of dollars and had a long and successful touring career, it wasn't
1:35.9	where his heart was. And he decided to give that all up and dive right back into one of the
1:42.8	most difficult positions probably to be in these days,
1:46.7	which is hip-hop producer.
1:48.9	And he's come out the other side with his reputation intact, his heartful.
1:55.4	And has become arguably the producer of the year of 2018.
1:59.9	Hopefully 2019.
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